Category: Quote of the Day

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). Discuss

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it. Discuss

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Discuss

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Discuss

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Discuss

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. Discuss

Life’s more amusing than we thought. Discuss

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst. Discuss

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Discuss

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. Discuss